FICTION

Cobra Starship
- ihrtangusyoung: I'm Droppin' Hints (Candy for Candy-Coated Tongue) ^m • 1,583 words (Gabe/Patrick, PG-13) [FOB, CS]

Empires
- jae_w: [all exits look the same] ^m • 2,300 words (Gen, NotRated) [Empires, PATD]
- battleofhydaspe: don't you wish you ^m • 900 words (Sean/Tom, PG-13)

Fall Out Boy
- ihrtangusyoung: I'm Droppin' Hints (Candy for Candy-Coated Tongue) ^m • 1,583 words (Gabe/Patrick, PG-13) [FOB, CS]

Gym Class Heroes
- miss_bilvy: black and gold ^m • 1,328 words (Travis/William, G) [TAI, GCH]

My Chemical Romance
- digdeepenough: Frank's a mans-man ^m • 4,216 words (Frank/Gerard, R)
- mmmaxibon: Butterfly (Fly Away) ^m • 679 words (Frank/Gerard, G)
- kuriositet: Like You. ^m • 2,000 words (Frank/Gerard, R)
- simplechaos184: Not to be Tried at Home ^m • 1,331 words (Frank/Gerard, PG-13)

Panic At The Disco
- jae_w: [all exits look the same] ^m • 2,300 words (Gen, NotRated) [Empires, PATD]
- b_dsaint: BEDAZZLER OF DOOM!! ^m • ~500 words (Brendon/Spencer, R)
- longerthanwedo: Golden Days (Forever is Fine) ^m • 777 words (Brendon/Ryan, PG-13)
- prettykitty_fic: winter's passing ^m • 11,150 words (TheYoungVeins, GSF, R)
- ivesia19: But in Time ^m • 1,908 words (Brendon/Ryan, PG-13)
- timetodance0110: A Love Story ^m • 2,509 words (Brendon/Ryan, PG)
- lumberxjill: and it's like I can't feel a thing without you around. ^m • 2,457 words (Brendon/Ryan, PG-13)

The Academy Is
- miss_bilvy: black and gold ^m • 1,328 words (Travis/William, G) [TAI, GCH]

Other
- xxxrydenxxx: Forget Superstition ^m • 1,304 words (TheYoungVeins, PhantomPlanet, AlexGreenwald/Ryan, NC-17)

ART AND COMICS

- bandom_calendar: Day 1: Panic! at the Disco/TYV art ^m • (TheYoungVeins, Gen, Brendon/Spencer, NotRated) [PATD]
- xbeax: Ryan Ross, Magical Babysitter?! ^m • (Gen, NotRated) [PATD]

DISCUSSIONS

- bandfandom_ref: Where to find rest of Cobra Starship article ^m • [CS]

RECS

- failboatsinlove: Brendon/Spencer Fic Rec ^m • [PATD]

CHALLENGES

- stonersinlove: Christmas Challenge Reminder ^m • [PATD]
- sodamnskippy: Mod Announcement: Mike/Kevin Christmas Fic Exchange! ^m • [TAI]
- mcrsecretsanta: Sign Ups Closed ^m • [MCR]

MISCELLANEOUS

- bandomrarepair: Poll ^m
- gerard_bob: New Gerard/Bob in November ^m • [MCR]

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The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena
By indulging native appetites played what has now been seen a
Not entirely negligible part
In consolidating at the very start
The position of the Early Christian Church.
Initiatory rites are always bloody
And the lions, it appears
From contemporary art, made a study
Of dyeing Coliseum sands a ruddy
Liturgically sacrificial hue
And if the Christians felt a little blue--
Well people being eaten often do.

i've got some shirts and posters for sale, including a few tai ones.

at my journal

"A language is a system of discrete infinity, a procedure that enumerates an infinite class of expressions, each of them a structured complex of properties of sound and meaning."

from Linguistics and Brian Science by Chomsky

and we sat in the cinema, moving shadows reflecting off our faces, my hand clutching his so tightly that I left little crescent moons in his flesh and when the film was over we walked out of the dark amidst our exclamations of 'didn't you love the part when?' and when we got outside it was midnight and still warm and raining and we said 'let's walk home anyway' and we walked home hand in hand stopping to kiss on illuminated street corners and racing each other to jump in puddles and splash each other and fat raindrops ran down our faces and when we got home we took off our wet clothing and drowned in the water tracing each other's bodies

This was a recipe for banana bread I nabbed from somewhere I can't recall, but I decided it's way more cake-like so I frosted it.. and what goes best on banana-chocolate cake? Well, banana-chocolate frosting! Obviously!


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YUM.

these were so good!

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After going the concept route -- or at least making a linear work on 'The Black Parade' -- My Chemical Romance are going in another direction on their forthcoming album, due early next year. Spinner visited the group in their L.A. studio to get an early preview and we were left suitably blown away by the nine very disparate songs we got to hear. The tracks ranged from the atmospheric 'Light Before Your Eyes,' a song frontman Gerard Way describes as Pink Floyd-ish, to the '80s-flavored 'Trans Am' and the punk/dance party tune, 'Death Before Disco,' which starts off with a Judas Priest 'Living After Midnight' vibe and turns into a lyrical salute to the Stooges, Velvet Underground and MC5.

Way tells Spinner the as-yet-untitled album is a definite answer to 'The Black Parade.' "Every single record we make is a response to the last," he says. "But sometimes it's not only a response to the last record -- it's a response to the opinion of that record or a response to the world at the time of that record."

What he sees and documents on the new album is a lot of rockers who are in music for the wrong reason. "There's a definite undercurrent of fame versus working class, people having stuff handed to them with zero talent versus working class kids that start a band," he says. "Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends -- rock 'n' roll is dangerous and rock 'n' roll should piss people off. Right now, there's not a lot of that happening. What it is is a lot of people trying to be famous. That seems to be the goal."

In Way's opinion, that desire to be famous is messing up the sanctity of rock ''n roll. "It's bled into rock. It came from other places, but it's bled into rock 'n' roll and kind of tainted it a bit," Way says. "This record is really a response to that as well."

MCR certainly have the resources and notoriety to bask in that fame as well, so how do they resist that temptation? "Instead of us panicking and trying to see where we can grab the money or grab the opportunity, we just wrote music instead," Way says. "We tried to write a great record; that was our response to things. I think that writing a great record will sell records these days, as opposed to doing every other f---ing thing that people seem to be doing to sell a record."

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

~Jorge Luis Borges

♥ Our table was already filling up with an array of britty confident thirty-something lawyers, bellowing with laughter and trying to outdo each other with the sort of flippant conversational sallies that are obviously tips of huge icebergs of legal and Zeitgeisty knowledge:

"How do you know if you're addicted to the Internet?"

"You realize you don't know the gender of your three beast friends." Haaar Waagh. Harharhar.

"You can't write full stops any more without adding co.uk." BAAAAAAAAAAA!

"You do all your work assignments in HTML Protocol." Blaaaaagh haehar. Braaaah. Hahah.

♥ "The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent. And it is perfectly obvious that Labour stands for the principle of sharing, kindness, gays, single mothers and Nelson Mandela as opposed to braying bossy men having affairs with everything shag-shag-shag left, right and center and going to the Ritz in Paris then telling all the presenters off on the Today program."

♥ Mark came whizzing up "whooosh fzzzzzzz" and asked me if I was ready to come down now.

Explained in whisper, had made mistake by coming on slope as skiing is v. dangerous sport - so much so that holiday insurance won't even insure it. Is one thing having accident that you could not foresee; quite another willingly putting yourself in an extremely dangerous situation, knowingly dicing with death or maiming, like doing bungee jumping, climbing Everest, letting people shoot apples off head etc.

♥ Maybe Magda is right. Maybe I just assumed that he was chucking me and he didn't mean that at all. Maybe in the car he was just upset about the whole snogging thing and wanted me to say something and now he thinks I am avoiding him!! Am going to ring. That is the trouble with modern (or ex) relationships, there just isn't enough communication.

♥♥♥ What is it about modern Singletons that only way they can have a normal relationship is if it isn't supposed to be a relationship? There's Shaz who isn't going out with Simon doing what couples are supposed to do, and me and Mark who are supposed to be going out not seeing each other at all.

"If you ask me people should not say 'just good friends' but 'just going out with each other,'" I said darkly.

"Yup," said Jude. "Maybe the answer is platonic friends combined with a vibrator.

~~Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding.

- This is so insanely hot. There are no words.

Photos from the Stockholm gig last night!



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And some from the Palace show last Friday ...Julian in leather oh dear